Word: neutralistic
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Behind Pakistan's new stance is growing pressure on Ayub by neutralist Pakistani politicians such as 35-year-old Foreign Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Emerging from sessions with Ayub and Bhutto, Ball declared that "we have a better understanding of each other's point of view." It was diplomatese for a stubborn deadlock. Although Ayub privately had made it clear that he will not sign any military pacts with China and wants to remain an ally of the West, he passed along word to his American guest that Pakistan is not about to back down...
...gross national product (v. almost 10% for the U.S.). President de Gaulle, with his longing to have his own independent force de frappe, has set France's 1963 defense spending at $3.7 billion, or 5.1% of its G.N.P. Italy will spend $1.3 billion, West Germany $4.7 billion; even neutralist Sweden has hiked its 1963 defense budget to $675 million. Thousands of European firms, from such giants as Italy's Fiat and France's Sud Aviation to makers of uniforms and rifles, are getting interested in defense work...
Meanwhile, the Russians did not seem eager to help their Chinese brothers with their growing internal economic difficulties. While Khrushchev wooed neutralist India and Egypt with aid, and even brought his moneybags on a pilgrimage to that renegade Red, Tito, not an additional ruble was allotted...
Just a year after the Geneva agreement consolidated Laos' three warring factions into a single government, the precarious arrangement is falling apart. Reason: the Communists are simply ignoring the truce, as well as their longtime alliance with Neutralist Premier Souvanna Phouma, and are seeking to wrest control of the vital Plain of Jars in central Laos from neutralist troops. Though at first suspicious of the neutralist regime, Rightist General Phoumi Nosavan sent four battalions to help it. Despite such assistance, the neutralist forces under General Kong Le have only one strategic position left on the plain - Phou Theneng mountain...
...Jars, wearing a T shirt, a pair of Levi's and rubber bath shoes, Kong Le perches on a stool morosely studying a map beneath the light of a swaying hurricane lamp. The picture is discouraging: the Pathet Lao are advancing in the Vang Vieng area, 13 neutralist soldiers are missing after an action at Ban Boua, a 100-truck Red supply convoy from North Viet Nam arrived at the Pathet Lao headquarters at Khang Khay. At such news, Kong Le is apt to wince, rub an old battle scar on his forehead and say: "My head hurts." Then...